Thread: Hills Department Store

does anyone remember the old hills store christmas commercials with the elves or elfs whatever they are if anyone has any recorded please let me know "According to legend, little folk know, Hills is where the toys are."

Sorry for bumping an old-ish/dead thread, but are there any Hills Department Stores still around? (Did they all close up? Or did they move somewhere else?) There used to be one down the street from me..

I remember seeing a Hills X-mas commercial on The World's Funniest Videos (sort of an AFV clone) where one man was asking for toy trains at another department store, but he said they only had cabooses. The man then asked if they had tracks, but they only had curved ones. The next shot showed a caboose running around a round track!

Hills no longer exists... if you click the link above from Ray8286, it gives a history on Hills. They were bought out by Ames, which were then eventually ran bankrupt and closed down all locations. The bigger-box stores of Wal-Mart, Target, & K-Mart basically chewed them up & spit them out.

Hills I have fond memories of 'cause it was a department store that was close enough to me where I could bike to. They had cheap popcorn & cotton-candy in the lobby, which the smell was always intoxicating. It was also where they had a couple of coin-op games... of which I still remember to this date that its where I got my first taste of Rampage.

I always remember the popcorn tasting stale.They had the old school soda machines that would drop a paper cup down,fill it with ice,and dispense flat soda.Sounds like i'm complaining but i miss that stuff!

if all you guys miss the hill's food slurpee's ect. i found something really cool walmart just made this little place inside the store right next to subway called the "Snack Shack". it has all the hill's food and nothing else i just spent about 20 bucks buying stuff from there. tastes the same to:D

Hills was great. I loved shopping there for christmas stuff. They had sooo many more toys than anywhere eles. Back when our Hills store was still open we still didn't have any just regular toy stores yet. No toys r us, no Kb(which is closed now too) we didnt even have walmart yet. I loved all the stuff at hills. It was cheap too. Not to mention it was one of the few stores that still had layaway. Anticipation of picking up the layaway....priceless...hehe haha!